Attachment for looms.



No. 628,914. Patentad l-uly I8, |899.

J'. BEGINS. y

ATTACHMENT FOR LOOMS.

(Application led Sept. 10, 1898.)

(No Model.)

JOSEPH BEGINS, OF LISBON CENTER, MAINE.

ATTACHMENT FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent` No. 628,914, dated July 18, 1899-.

i i Application tiled September 10, 1898. Serial Noi 690,659. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BEGINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lisbon Center, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, hawve invented a new and useful Attachment for Looms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to looms, and more particularly to a construction of 1u gstrap attached to the picker-stick, the object being to provide an improved means whereby the lug-strap is always held against the pickerstick and-keptfrom moving up or down and breaking off the screw and loop-strap on the said parts, and Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view of the lug-strap and looped bearingstrap.

In carrying out my invention I make no change whatever in the picker-stick A, lugstrap B, or loopstrap O. Within the lugstrap, however, and attached also to thepitman D, I arrange a looped bearing-strap E, which bears against the inner face of the picker-stick and holdsit tight against the lugstrap, thereby preventing the lug-strap from working up and down, as heretofore, breaking off the screws and'loop-strap. In practice I prefer to construct these straps of soleleather; but it is obvious that any other suitable material may be l, used. The bearing strap also prevents any sudden jerks upon the picker-stick, and I have found that all the parts wear much better inconsequence of the additional looped strap, as herein de-` scribed. One end of the bearing-strap is sewed or otherwise secured to one end oit the lug-strap, while the other end is slotted longitudinally, as shown at E in order to render `said strap adjustable to different sizes of picker-sticks. The same bolt Fwhich secures the lug-strap also secures the looped bearing-strap.

It will thus be seen that I provide an exceedingly cheap and simple construction` which will efficiently serve all the objects'i'or which it was intended.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In an Vattachment for looms, the combination with the picker-stick, lug-strap, and pitman, of an adjustable slotted bearing-loop arranged within the lug-strap, substantially as shown and described.

2. In attachment `for looms, the combination with the pitman, of a picker-stick, a lugstrap embracing the picker-stick and secured to the pitman, a bearing-strap fastened at one end to thev lug-strap, and longitudinally slotted at the other end, substantially as shown and described. v

The combination with the picker-stick, loop, and lug straps, of the longitudinallyslotted looped bearing-strap constructed asdescribed and arranged within the lug-strap and bearing against the picker-stick, substantially as shown and described.

. JOSEPH BEGINS.

Witnesses: l

BARtrL-nv CoNNrnr, J OsEPH TOUTAIN. 

